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Senior Projektleder

København, Danmark

Native Danish, Fluent English

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Skills (26)

DECOMMISSIONING

CONTRACTS

ITIL

Project Management

BUSINESS REQUIREMENTS

REQUIREMENTS GATHERING

Risk Management

STEERING

VENDOR SELECTION

ROLLOUT

GOVERNANCE

JOINT VENTURE

Deployment Coordination

Vendor Management

TEAM MANAGEMENT

SHIPPING

Portfolio Management

DOCUMENTATION

METRICS

SAP

ERP

TRADING

SUBJECT MATTER EXPERT

SERVICE DESK

MAINTENANCE

EMPLOYEE RESOURCE GROUP

Summary

Christian is an experienced Senior Project and Program Manager. He has a background from the IT and consulting industry, and has worked at e.g. IBM, Accenture and Deloitte in various project management roles for more than 20 years. He has worked with large IT delivery organizations covering all phases from initial analysis and contracting to development and service operations, in both agile and waterfall settings. Christian has a track record for managing complex transitions especially in the application outsourcing domain. His latest assignment is a complex mainframe sunset program, where he led several software development projects for replacement systems as well as leading the controlled decommissioning of the mainframe. Christian has an ambitious personality and enjoys working on intensive projects. He has an analytical approach and mindset, leading projects and programs always focusing on avoiding surprises. He runs projects and programs in a lean set-up, typically with a small core team.

Professional Experience

Program Manager

Coop

2020-01 - 2023-12

Project: Sunsetting a mainframe largely replaced by SAP S/4.

* Leading a workstream to identify the mainframe scope, to be migrated to a new platform

* Procuring and implementing replacement systems, for scope outside of SAP

* Requirements gathering for replacement systems mainly being developed on the Azure cloud platform

* Preparation of the vendor selection materials

* Contracts preparation and negotiation

* Project management of the customer teams in the development projects

* Project management of the integration workstreams

* Vendor management of the vendor delivery teams

* Go-live preparations and change communication

* Hypercare lead

* Data archiving

* Requirements gathering for data archiving

* Outlining the data archiving approach

* Project management of the data archiving

* Sunsetting mainframe programs

* Coordination of the sunset of 6000 batch jobs and other mainframe applications gradually in parallel with the rollout of SAP and the replacement applications

* Vendor coordination with the mainframe outsourcing provider

* Running the steering committee meetings, including preparing the materials

Project manager - Post merger IT Workstream lead

Swedish Energy Company

2019-07 - 2020-02

Project: Merger between two Swedish gas companies: Planning and managing the IT integration of two energy companies. Working directly with the to-be IT manager * Managing workshops with functional teams to determine to-be IT landscape * Contracting and coordinating with IT vendors * Overall planning and follow up * Cut-over planning and execution

ERP Program Manager

Financial Services IT provider

2020-02 - 2020-06

Project: Managing a turn-around for a program covering ERP, time recording and project portfolio management systems * Preparing a revised project plan covering all the sub projects being delivered by 3 different vendors * Vendor management * Project manager for customer teams * Running the steering committee meetings, including preparing the materials

Project manager

Financial Services IT Provider

2019-03 - 2019-06

Project: Bend the curve (IT cost take out) * Execution of a cost take out analysis for a Financial IT service provider * Management of a 3-person team and a technical sub supplier team * Direction of the analysis * Executed workshops across the organization * Presentation of the analysis to the C-level leadership team

Transition Subject Manager Expert

Public Sector

2019-01 - 2019-03

Project: Large transition and transformation project Transitions subject matter expert on a complex public sector IT transformation

Transition project manager

Bank - Finland

2018-01 - 2018-12

Project: Contract extension project for a very large IT outsourcing service contract covering application maintenance, application development and a joint venture company. Delivery team of approximately 500 FTE The role includes: * Transition planning and execution * Follow-up with all the workstream leads * Agreeing and implementation of new agile metrics * Project managing the refresh of the joint venture organization * Driving the governance workstream * Implementing new complex agile metrics * Running the steering committee meetings, including preparing the materials

Project Manager

Retail company - Sweden

2017-08 - 2018-02

SAP Service Introduction Project: Service introduction for a new global SAP solution.

* Defining the Service Introduction approach * Managing cross team coordination between project and all involved support teams * Managing knowledge transfer from the project to the support teams (TCS) * Running governance meetings for the service introduction * Ensuring that all to be support teams are aligned to the new solution

Application Outsourcing Transition Project Manager

Leading Brewery Company

2017-03 - 2017-06

Project: Large infrastructure, cloud, and application outsourcing transition Christian managed the application outsourcing transition part of the program including: * Detailed transition planning * Managing 3rd party vendors transition execution * Managing a transition team of 6 and a total of 130 FTE * Primary client counterpart for application transition matters

Hypercare- and deployment project manager

Leading Shipping Company

2014-08 - 2017-02

Project: Implementation of the Accenture Freight- and Logistics Solution (AFLS).

Hypercare lead: * Preparation of the Hypercare approach * Aligned Hypercare with the involved support units * Managed day to day Hypercare execution * Planned and lead the execution of Hypercare coordinating across vendors Deployment lead: * Detailed planning and preparation of the deployment approach * Detailed deployment planning for complex and highly integrated new pricing solution * Deployment coordination during the actual release deployment

Application outsourcing transition project manager

Retail company - Denmark

2014-02 - 2014-06

Project: Application outsourcing transition of the Digital and Stores applications Nearshore outsourcing to Riga.

* Transition planning and execution * Preparing the service management procedures * Coordinating the knowledge transfer * Preparing steering committee materials and running the meetings

Service Introduction and Hypercare project manager

Leading Brewery Company

2011-02 - 2013-02

Project: Large SAP project Managed Service Introduction and Hypercare execution for 2 SAP waves * Prepared Service introduction and hypercare approach * Planned and coordinated knowledge transfer execution * Executed the Service Introduction follow-ups and approvals * Planned and executed Service Management training for 100+ project resources participating in Hypercare

Deputy Transition Program Lead

Tele Company - Norway

2013-07 - 2013-12

Project: Application management/Application development agreement with +400 FTE Deputy transition Lead for AD/AM and Service Integration contract with large Norwegian tele company, * Managed the program planning and follow up * Set up OLA's with main 3rd party vendors * Responsible for the Risk management

SAP Service Delivery Manager

Oil & Gas Company

2013-03 - 2013-05

Project: SAP Application Management Service delivery * Day to day onsite SPOC for client * Team management * Prepared and presented the monthly SLA report

Consultant

Pharma Company

2010-01 - 2012-02

Project: Service desk transition * Defining service desk requirements * Implementation coordination with the new vendor * Training coordinator for new ways of working across IT

Transition project manager and service manager

Large pharma company

2008-05 - 2010-07

Project: SAP Application management, Application development and Service desk transition * Planning transition * Day to day transition project management * Preparation of steerco materials * Managed knowledge transfer and service management workstreams

Implementation team lead for change management

Damco

2007-07 - 2008-05

Project: FACT SAP project in Maersk Logistics * Team Lead for 6 Change Specialists * Responsible for Global Business Change Management Support for the roll out of SAP in Damco/Maersk Logistics * Managed local site preparations * Managed a global readiness tracker

Academic Background

MSc.

Aalborg University

2024-01 - 1997-01

Certifications

PMP®-Project Management Professional (Certified)

ITIL v.3. Foundation, NNIT (Certified)

Prince 2 foundation

2018-12

SAFe team member